Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 18 48
Rank change year-on-year -40 +30 0
Permanent jobs citing Docker 11 67 22
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.29% 10.00% 3.87%
As % of the System Software category 16.18% 59.29% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11 67 16
10th Percentile £56,250 £23,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £58,316 £31,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £32,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -44.68% -2.08%
75th Percentile £78,145 £64,938 £66,563
90th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £63,248 £32,500 £53,583
% change year-on-year +94.61% -39.35% -10.70%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 68 113 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.95% 16.87% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 54 92 42
10th Percentile £28,000 £23,750 £33,717
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,563 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £32,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +65.38% -36.59% -2.84%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £72,415
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £44,562
% change year-on-year +31.25% -10.24% -2.60%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -20 7 £73,801 +127.08% 27
Bridgend - 4 £58,750 -
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) dbt
4 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (27.27%) PaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Pulumi
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
6 2 (18.18%) Sentry
7 1 (9.09%) Datadog
7 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
7 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (27.27%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) git-flow
2 2 (18.18%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Locust
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Django
2 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) Jest
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Vitest
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (54.55%) Observability
5 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
7 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
7 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
8 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (18.18%) FinOps
8 2 (18.18%) Microservices
8 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
8 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) Pega
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Guidewire
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce